reklan wrote:must admit .. wasn't particularly impressed with unity, but stuck with it to get steam working.

I first tried Unity (upgrade from 10.04) on my laptop and then Kubuntu / xcfe before settling on LXDE , tested the Steam client knowing that it wouldn't be able to run the games, checking that I'd can still login to my Steam account.

Before attempting the upgrade on the desktop - which borked the video driver, couldn't run unity smoothly, need to re-install the driver before getting a smooth unfreezing desktop.

I don't get Unity, my app were upgrade and installed but can I find them without searching for them, not organised.

Is steam available in the Ubuntu repo's? I've managed to get it working on 64-bit Mint 14 although it was a little bit of a pain!

It said there was dependency problems eventhough all the 32-bit libraries had been installed via the ia32-libs package - it was a 32-bit xterm which was needed. I did a apt-get -f install to fix the dependencies, unfortunately steam didn't work very well so I uninstalled the deb package and reinstalled and now it works like a dream .

So not much of a pain but a little bit of one.. I've tried TF2 and CS:Source both run smoothly, just take a little while to load.

Crispy wrote:So not much of a pain but a little bit of one.. I've tried TF2 and CS:Source both run smoothly, just take a little while to load.

Not sure of your PC spec, but mines a Q6600, with 4 gig, and a AMD 5770 1 gig.

Initially TF2 used to take ages for me as well, however after i reinstalled ubuntu 12.4.2 and installed the latest experimental drivers it makes a big difference.. TF2 used to take a few mins to load up (but run smoothly) now it takes hell of a lot less (i think around 15 secs) and runs even smoother.

No, well not for 12.04, it's just the 32 bit deb you get from Steam / Valve.

Installed perfectly, said some 32 bit library's were needed, it popped up a xterm and displayed the library's it was downloading and installing.

Originally I did try to install it using the software centre but it still said it had broken dependencies... no idea why! I did experiment with dpkg --add-architecture i386 and that meant I could at least search the i386 repo's but for some reason dpkg --print-architecture still only says amd64?? I'm not sure if the xterm it installed is actually 32-bit or not lol

Not sure of your PC spec, but mines a Q6600, with 4 gig, and a AMD 5770 1 gig.

Initially TF2 used to take ages for me as well, however after i reinstalled ubuntu 12.4.2 and installed the latest experimental drivers it makes a big difference.. TF2 used to take a few mins to load up (but run smoothly) now it takes hell of a lot less (i think around 15 secs) and runs even smoother.

Ahh ok, it might be I need the experimental drivers then, thanks for that shall give them a try. I've got a GT640, works very well.

I'm stuck with Windows - I game using an "exotic" setup, and while AMD appear to support EyeFinity in Linux... nVidia does not do the same with Surround. Worse, Portrait mode throws a further spanner in the works, as X can't seem to cope with three monitors in portrait - it thinks they're 1920x1920, rather than 1200x1920...

I may go back to landscape and try again, but I need to sort the desk out first...